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Macarius of Egypt wasstyled the god of the monks, so affectionately and readily was he obeyedby them, because he never spoke a word with anger or impatience. Whence St. See thecompilations of Bollandus from the authors of the Byzantine history. e, after the manner of the ancient Fathers of theDesert, he might devote himself entirely to grayer and penitentialausteri

y companions, and resolutely rejectedthe solicitations of an uncle who sought to draw him back into theworld, he made his solemn profession. Growing still weaker, amidhis transports of love, he desired extreme unction, which he received,answering himself to all the prayers. A third writer added a relation of later miracles, and of the translation of these relics into the city of Tourney, in 1164. , king of that country, was defeated by Theodoric II.